Non-Refillable bottle to be made at the Wagner Glass Company

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Morning Star

Muncie, IN, United States
vol. 25, no. 10, p. 3, col. 1-2

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE

TO BE MADE AT INGALLS

[STAR’S SPECIAL SERVICE]

Anderson, Ind., May 7. — About a year ago Henry Wagner, president of the Wagner Glass company, of Ingalls, Ind., and an old and experienced glass manufacturer, became interested in Charles C. Guernsey’s non-refillable bottle and he with Mr. Guernsey, had molds made and spent both time and money in perfecting this patent, and were not satisfied to try to place the article on the market until every ob­jection possible to be made could be successfully overcome. After a year's work they have overcome every ob­stacle and are now ready to place the bottle on the market.

Mr. Henry Wagner, now president of the Wagner Glass company, is presi­dent of the new enterprise. The vice-president is W. V. Hamilton, a mer­chant of Nashville, Tenn.; second vice president, N. R Shroyer. a merchant of the same city; R Wagner, secretary of the Wagner Glass works, is secretary; Thomas H. Wilson, of Wilson, Hum­phreys & Co., publishers. Logansport, is treasurer. Besides there, Charles G. Guernsey, the patentee, and Thomas J. Peden, of the law firm of Peden & Cruse, of Chicago, are directors.

This company has absorbed the property of the Wagner Glass com­pany of Ingalls, where the bottle will be manufactured. The Wagner Glass Company has been manufacturing for about eight years a high-grade of prescription ware and have enjoyed an excellent trade. They now have orders booked to keep the factory run­ning at full capacity for several months.

The factory will be thoroughly over­hauled and new tanks and machinery large enough to produce bottles on a large scale will be built as soon as possible.

Mr. Wagner expects to expend $75,000 this summer in putting the new enterprise into shape. Already they have options on orders from the larg­est and wealthiest bottling houses in the land, to insure a steady run of full capacity for one year. Not only are they favored with plenty of orders, but the same firms are offering to take stock in the concern, some of them in blocks as high as $30,000.

Keywords:Wagner Glass Company
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information:Charles Guernsey received three utility patents for non-refillable bottles. They are 708,545; 741,578; and 892,252. Only one of these was granted prior to 1905, that being 708,545 which is likely the version mentioned in this article. Wagner-Davis also had patent 864,834 for a non-refillable bottle applied for in 1905 and granted in 1907.
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 19, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;